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Murder: True Crime Stories

SPECIAL: The Halloween Nightmare 2

Murder: True Crime Stories

Crime House

True Crime

4.6765 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Six years after 11-year-old Shauna Howe was abducted and murdered on Halloween night, a new detective uncovered the clue that changed everything. With DNA evidence, a shocking confession, and a trial that exposed the truth, Oil City, Pennsylvania finally got justice...but the nightmare left scars that lasted for decades


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0:00.0

Crime House has the perfect news show for Spooky Season, Twisted Tales hosted by Heidi Wong.

0:08.8

Each episode of Twisted Tales is perfect for late-night scares and daytime frights,

0:14.6

revealing the disturbing real-life events that inspired the world's most terrifying blockbusters,

0:21.5

and the ones too twisted to make it to scream.

0:24.8

Twisted Tales is a crimehouse original powered by Pave Studios.

0:29.2

Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

0:31.6

New episodes out every Monday.

0:33.4

Music This is This is crime house.

0:48.3

Halloween was never the same in Oil City, Pennsylvania, after 11-year-old Shauna Howe was kidnapped and murdered that same

0:56.7

week in 1992. A holiday known for costumes and fun had turned into a haunting reminder

1:03.2

of one of the town's worst crimes. Parents kept their kids inside, porch lights stayed dark,

1:10.2

and the community prayed

1:11.7

Shauna's killer would be caught one day.

1:14.6

But cold cases don't have to stay that way forever.

1:18.6

After six excruciating years, a new detective took on the investigation.

1:24.2

He was determined to bring Shauna the justice she deserved, and he wasn't afraid to reveal the monsters who'd been hiding in plain sight along the way.

1:43.7

People's lives are like a story.

1:46.2

There's a beginning, a middle, and an end.

1:48.9

But you don't always know which part you're on.

1:51.9

Sometimes the final chapter arrives far too soon, and we don't always get to know the real ending.

1:59.3

I'm Carter Roy, and this is murder, true crime stories,

2:03.3

a crime house original powered by Pave Studios that comes at every Tuesday and Thursday.

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